Maryland woman forgot where she hid $50,000 lottery ticket

Comment #14

Todd — Sat, 10 Dec 2022 22:02:02 GMT

I agree. She was being smart to make a worst-case assumption that she bought the ticket on the last available date.

Comment #13

TheMeatman2005 — Sat, 10 Dec 2022 20:20:40 GMT

Yes Todd, the expiration date is usually calculated from when the game is canceled, but she probably wouldn't have known if and when that particular game was to be canceled or when it would happen .

Comment #12

DELotteryPlyr — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 21:48:18 GMT

Thats a good point. I don't see the clerks running the scratch offs thru the machine to tell it that the ticket was sold. They just pull them out and hand them over.

Comment #11

Todd — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 20:15:31 GMT

For scratch games, the expiration date is usually calculated from when the game is canceled.

Comment #10

cheryl59 — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 17:21:30 GMT

This is why you put your tickets in the same place all the time... this happened to me one time but it was a $200 winning ticket... I learned a big lesson from that... btw I found the ticket by back tracking what I did that day

Comment #9

TheMeatman2005 — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 16:50:12 GMT

The article states: Lottery winners in Maryland have 182 days to collect prizes from scratch-off tickets.

My question: How would the MD Lottery know when a winning scratch-off ticket has been sold?

Also, if she won in June, why wait six months to claim the winnings

Comment #8

Artist77 — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 11:31:12 GMT

It was also the only live drawing that I have ever watched. I recall her attorney quickly dropped her once he figured out she was lying.

As the numbers were being drawn, I thought do not let me win the JP. Second place is fine with me. Lol

Comment #7

Todd — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 02:42:10 GMT

You have a good memory! I had forgotten about that one. That was pretty nutty.

Comment #6

Bleudog101 — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 00:39:07 GMT

Congratulations! Now when she hits the big one please take advantage of MD's anonymity law for lottery winners.

BTW Silver Spring my old stomping ground right on the DC border while stationed @ Walter Reed Army Medical Center in DC which has now moved to Bethesda, MD. (Military regulations stipulate that Medical centers retain their original name.

Comment #5

noise-gate — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 00:18:04 GMT

* Steve to Srijana..

Sending you forget me not to help you to remember, baby please forget me not l want you to remember!

* Forgets Me Nots- Patrice Rushen.

Comment #4

Artist77 — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 00:15:51 GMT

Yes. How could I forget Mirlande and all the others posting online that they had the winning ticket. Something was in the air during that Jackpot. I haven't seen a jp since then that brought that degree of lunatics out into the open.

Comment #3

Todd — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 00:10:43 GMT

This one?

https://www.lotterypost.com/news/244507

Comment #2

Artist77 — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 00:07:19 GMT

By the headline, I thought this was going to be the same infamous Maryland woman who claimed she hid the winning ticket somewhere at McDonald's. Still my fave lottery story.

Comment #1

Mata Garbo — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 23:36:23 GMT

Congrats to her. She actually won more than some of the actual contestants on the show without having to travel to Hollywood. Looking for that ticket while at the same time hoping that it had not expired must have been absolute mental anguish, so glad she found it in time.

Maryland woman forgot where she hid $50,000 lottery ticket

Lottery Post — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 22:38:32 GMT

Steve Harvey, FTW

By Kate Northrop

A Maryland woman won $50,000 on a scratch-off lottery ticket, but her hiding spot was apparently so good that she forgot where she put it.

Srijana Wosti was in a panic when she realized that the claims deadline was approaching for a $50,000 winning lottery ticket she could not find.

A scratch-off ticket was hiding somewhere in Wosti's home, waiting to be cashed in. Thankfully, the winner's hunt was successful, but it was not without stress.... [ More ]